[MPlayer-users] Bugs in RC2

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 18:25:45 +0000
Panko <glue3 at gmx.de> wrote:


> Buglist for RC2:
> 1)
> The automatic audio filter chain has A-V sync problems.
> No, -autosync doesn't help.
> 
> e.g.
> Soundcard only supports 48000Hz/2ch/16bit with OSS.
> This is correctly detected:
> 
> AO: [oss] 16000Hz 1ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
> Building audio filter chain for 16000Hz/1ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
> 
> But A-V seems to orientate at 16000Hz so
> A-V drops while playing A-V: -2,150 ... A-V:-32,482 and so on.
> So the video is played to fast, Audio is OK.

Read bugreports.html and also try current cvs, rc2 is outdated.

 
> 2)
> The 4:3 to 16:9 (or otherwise) change within an MPEG2 stream is not detected.
> Which looks very weird...

Limitation of something, dont know what. 
(Theoreticaly it should be possible to reconfigure the vo module)


> 3)
> Mute doesn't disconnect from (e.g.) /dev/dsp.
> So playing other audio is only possible with another dsp device.
> Please disconnect like the pause function does.
> Additionaly mplayer doesn't unmute on exit.

It's not a bug, but a missing feature.
Maybe i'll look at it later.


> Feature Request list:
> Some stuff is already mentioned by others...
> 
> 1)
> Snapshot picture function.

Already possible (though not the way you expect it)
 
> 2)
> Printing the current (exact) byteposition within a stream to stdout would be 
> very helpful. Maybe there is an undocumented option for this?

What for ?
Dont know whether it's easily possible.

> 3)
> Interactive stream dump. Just press a specific key and the current stream is 
> also dumped (with header) to disk with a e.g. time based filename.
> Another key should stop the stream dump.

Dont see much sens behind this. Interactive dumping is inexact
use the seeking options for this.
 
> 4)
> Better frame by frame selection, slow motion, fast motion, etc.

Not easily possible.


> Thanks for mplayer anyway, :-)

You are welcome.

			Attila Kinali

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